Ciklopea

We are rounding up 2020 on a high: our employer branding efforts have been recognized by independent experts and awarded with Croatia’s Best Employer Brand Award 2020 in the Small Business Category.

In this part of our “My Ciklopea Story” series, one of the rocks of Ciklopea, our trusty controlling and account manager Andrea Mataija shares her story. Enjoy reading!

We have been developing industry-specific language solutions for more than 15 years, and it has been shown time and again that the desired outcome of every localization process depends solely on translation/localization process and the way it is implemented.

10 Ciklopea team members are sharing their summer reading favourites with you.

Would you like to join one of the top LSPs in Southern Europe that continues its operations despite the pandemics, as confirmed by the recent award for excellence during challenges?

Leading Croatian HR consultancy SELECTIO has awarded selected Croatian and international companies that demonstrated high quality human resources management and care for their employees during the pandemic. We are happy to announce that Ciklopea is one of these companies.

We are proud to announce that independent market research firm CSA Research recognizes Ciklopea as a leader in the multi-billion global translation, interpreting, and localization industry.

We have recently had an interesting chat with Nikola Ljubešić, researcher at the Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, on the machine translation research focused on similar languages, in this case Slovenian, Croatian and Serbian.

We have proven to be a trusted supplier to the EU as we have won the lot for the translation into the Croatian language for the European Commission.

Ciklopea, a company specialized for translation and localization to more than 30 languages, with clients in 41 countries, has been awarded the sixth consecutive Certificate Employer Partner. This is a prestigious award for excellence awarded by SELECTIO, a company that has awarded the Certificate Employer Partner to the organizations that demonstrate excellence in their employee management practices for 14 years.

You have experience in the language industry and you are passionate about recruiting the right people for the right teams. You enjoy facilitating the working relationship between in-house employees and external partners. If these statements are true about you, then you are the person we are looking for. You will be working with Ciklopea’s 4 offices: in Croatia, Serbia, Slovenia and Germany.

We are happy to announce that our CSO Mladen Stojak will represent Ciklopea at the tcworld 2019 conference taking place in Stuttgart, Germany, 12-14 November.

We help life sciences, IT & software and technology and manufacturing industries communicate their message to the foreign markets and secure a positive presence on a global scale.

Ciklopea offers work on dynamic and interesting projects, technical and linguistic training, as well as opportunity for personal growth and development, along with stimulative payment.

We are happy to announce that our CEO Sandra Stojak, our CSO Mladen Stojak and our HR and vendor manager Sara Demiri will represent Ciklopea at the Meet Central Europe conference taking place in Prague, Czech Republic, 9-10 October.

The second dissemination NEC TM day was held on 23 September 2019 at Europe House in Zagreb.

The NEC TM team welcomes the East and Central European National Anchor Points on 23 September in Zagreb.

Location: Belgrade, Serbia

We are happy to announce that our new microsite developed to provide detailed information on language solutions for the medical and pharmaceutical industries has been launched.

We are happy to announce that our Quality Assurance Team Lead Nikolina Škof will represent Ciklopea at the forthcoming  memoQfest event taking place in Budapest, Hungary, 29-31 May.

Ciklopea is looking for freelance English ­– Croatian and English ­– Serbian translators with experience in translating medical and clinical trial materials.

We are happy to announce that our Managing Director Mladen Stojak will represent Ciklopea at the forthcoming ND focus Elia’s networking days for executives event taking place in Dubrovnik, Croatia, 9-10 May 2019.

We are happy to announce that our Managing Director Mladen Stojak and our Business Development Manager Kristijan Novak will represent Ciklopea at the NEXT Pharma Summit taking place in Dubrovnik, Croatia, 6-7 May 2019.

We are happy to announce that our Human Resources Manager Sara Demiri will represent Ciklopea at the forthcoming Elia Together event taking place 21-22 February in Barcelona, Spain.

We are happy to announce that our Managing Director Mladen Stojak and our Production Manager Martina Ljubičić will represent Ciklopea at the forthcoming Across LSP Day 2019 taking place on 19 February in Cologne, Germany.

We are happy to announce that our Managing Director Mladen Stojak  will contribute to the Second European Language Resource Coordination workshop on 12 February 2019 at the European Commission Representation office in Zagreb.

In the first interview in our My Ciklopea Story series in 2019 our Project Management Team Lead Maja Peradin tells us about her career path and shares professional tips on high quality project management.

Ciklopea offers you work on dynamic and interesting projects, technical and language-related training, as well as personal growth and development, along with regular payment.

Another exciting and hectic year is behind us – we were ranked among the 20 top LSPs in Southern Europe (again), we were present at several conferences, we were awarded our fifth Certificate Employer Partner, and we also produced some content in an effort to share our knowledge and experience with you – and these are the five posts that you liked the most in 2018.

Year after year, we prove our expertise and quality in the area of human resources, which has once again been recognized by SELECTIO that has awarded us the Certificate Partner Employer for the fifth consecutive time.

We’re rounding up this year’s cycle of Ciklopea stories with our Miloš Matović. He told us about how he got into Ciklopea and what he was doing before he took over the role of the company’s creative leader and became a marketing manager.

Ciklopea is looking for a full-time Sales Development Representative to help us grow our pipeline of new leads within the target industries. If you’re a passionate & driven team player with a proven track record of B2B lead generation and/or relationship sales, we want to talk with you.

We are pleased to announce a new member of the Ciklopea family, Ljubica Milovanović, has joined our branch office in Serbia.

Tcworld conference gathers translation and localization experts who contribute a lot to the language industry community with their innovative ways of thinking.

We are proud to announce that our Managing Director Mladen Stojak and our Chief Operations Officer Marina Orešković will attend this year’s tcworld conference taking place in Stuttgart, 13 – 15 November 2018.

Your tasks: Server maintenance and control, backup system setup. Existing Domain Controller and user rights maintenance. Workstation maintenance (installation, updating and installed software maintenance) Mail server maintenance and user account management Existing IT network maintenance Online traffic monitoring and handling in case of overload etc. Monitoring the internal CMS development and smaller system updates Planning […]

Good news never fails to make us smile, and this time Bisnode made us very happy by awarding us the AAA Creditworthiness Certificate.

What you will do Cooperate with internal teams (such as sales and production) to clearly understand the existing and future requirements for resourcing Identify and contract suitable freelance suppliers worldwide (translators, reviewers, and other language-related service providers) based on production requirements and corporate sourcing strategy Drive a transparent and accountable freelance supply chain Communicate with […]

Ciklopea was founded late in 2003 as a home start-up. Fast forward 15 years, Ciklopea is a leading translation company with 3 production offices in 3 countries, dozens of employees and one of the Top 20 Language Services Providers in Southern Europe.

Today we are introducing our QA/digital marketing specialist Juraj Močilac who shares details on his unique set of skills and a very interesting story about how his strengths were discovered at Ciklopea.

We are proud to announce that our Chief Business Development Officer Zana Čizmin will be one of the speakers at Meet Central Europe conference.

Every year on September 26, we celebrate the European Day of Languages to show the diversity of cultures, people and communication styles of our continent.

Ciklopea offers you work on dynamic and interesting projects, continuous education, professional growth and development and regular payment.

Ciklopea is confirming its excellence year after year and this year it is reflected with our participation in the Bisnode4Excellence conference.

Ciklopea offers you work on dynamic and interesting projects, technical and linguistic training, professional growth and development and regular payment.

Ciklopea is looking for freelance English ­– Croatian translators with experience in translating medical and clinical trial materials.

We are happy to announce that Ciklopea is part of a winning consortium that will conduct a thorough research on translation costs in public administration and estimated savings through development and use of translation memories in Spain, Latvia and Croatia for Innovation and Networks Executive Agency (INEA).

Ciklopea is looking for freelance English – Croatian translators with the EU materials translation experience.

We asked our project manager Nikola Đorđević to tell us more about website localization, the importance of client’s feedback and the tools he uses on a daily basis. He also gave us some information about his life, hobbies and interests outside the office space.

Web designer Emanuel Blagonić (Blagonic Brothers) was kind enough to share his experiences and views on WordPress web development and website localization solutions.

We had a chit-chat with our human resources manager Sara Demiri about her job and the people she meets on a daily basis. She also told us a lot about the values she believes in, her hobbies, passions and other interests.

Independent market research company Common Sense Advisory analyses the language services market every year and subsequently releases market reports and top lists of language services providers.

Ciklopea, the leading provider of language services in Southern Europe, has opened a new branch office in Ljubljana, Slovenia, in response to increasing business demands in the country. The newly established Ljubljana office will work closely with Ciklopea’s offices in Zagreb and in Belgrade to deliver the full range of language solutions including localization, translation and consulting.

Our QA Specialist Nikolina Škof shares her Ciklopea story, some details on her job and how her professional and academic experiences blended into one.

6 June is reserved for the UN Russian Language Day. As we want to celebrate the language as well as the culture of different nations, we’re bringing you the taste of Russian cuisine with this easy recipe for Zapekanka. It’s a traditional breakfast recipe and people love it for its taste, texture and nutritive values.

We are happy to announce that our Chief Strategy Officer Mladen Stojak will represent Ciklopea at the forthcoming LocWorld conference in Warsaw, Poland, 6 – 8 June 2018.

We are happy to announce that our Chief Strategy Officer Mladen Stojak will represent Ciklopea at the forthcoming TransDigit conference in Ljubljana, Slovenia, 29 May 2018.

Want to be a part of the language industry? Want to know what we do and learn about our processes? Want to find out about the translators’ challenges and translation technologies? Looking for a job? You can find out about this and more on our Doors Open Day on 11 June at our offices in […]

Location: Belgrade, Serbia

Are you a creative person with a keen eye for details? Do you have a strong passion for technology and know Adobe suite to the core? Then check out the job opportunity below!

We are happy to announce that Ciklopea has joined the Across LSP Advisory Board, one of the three advisory boards (the other two being Corporate and Translator’s Boards) whose role is to facilitate tighter cooperation between Across Systems and various groups of Across users, enabling them to participate in the product development by sharing their experiences, desires and visions with the company.

This year, Ciklopea has taken part in the “Golden Index” program, winning another “Student friend” award.

Dejan Prebeg is one of Ciklopea’s Project Managers. Known as our Across guy, Dejan shares his professional experiences and views in the latest interview in our My Ciklopea Story series.

We are happy to announce that our Chief Operations Officer Marina Orešković and our Project Manager Dejan Prebeg will represent Ciklopea at the forthcoming Across LSP Day 2018 taking place on 7 March in Cologne, Germany. If you are attending Across LSP Day 2018 as well and want to schedule a meeting with the Ciklopea […]

We are happy to announce that our Chief Operations Officer Marina Orešković will moderate the Trends track at the forthcoming Elia Together event taking place in Athens, Greece, 22-23 February 2018. If you are attending Elia Together 2018 as well and want to schedule a meeting with the Ciklopea representative, please contact us via the […]

Ciklopea offers you work on dynamic and interesting projects, continuous training, professional growth and development, as well as regular payment.

Ciklopea offers you work on dynamic and interesting projects, technical and linguistic training, professional growth and development and regular payment.

We help life sciences, IT & software and technology and manufacturing industries communicate their message to the foreign markets and secure a positive presence on a global scale. Want to join our team? Continue reading… As a Sales Representative, you will be part of the team enabling Ciklopea to strengthen its position as a leader […]

Ciklopea offers you work on dynamic and interesting projects, technical and linguistic training, professional growth and development and regular payment.

Over the past 12 months, we launched the new website, we were ranked among top 20 Southern Europe’s largest LSPs, we received the fourth Employer Partner Certificate, we traveled the world and we also produced some content. 2017 is a wrap and here are the top 5 posts most liked, read and/or shared by our readers.

Every year, the Employer Partner Certificate is awarded to employers who manage to meet the rigid criteria for quality human resources management. The efficient balancing of the employer’s and employees’ satisfaction is visible in their partnership, which is continuously built and strengthened. Owing to our hard work and effort, constant improvement and development of business […]

Another exciting year is coming to a close and we thank you for staying with us for another 365 days.

Your Tasks: Taking part in organization of complex projects and development of language solutions. Daily cooperation with project managers. Mentorship and introduction of new translators. Monitoring and rating of translator’s work. Suggesting required training for translators. Continuous work with translators / development of their skills. Process and procedures development. Daily work in specialized professional software. […]

Ines Ivelja was Ciklopea’s in-house translators for several years before starting her own translation business. This is her story.

Ciklopea offers you work on dynamic and interesting projects, technical and linguistic training, professional growth and development and regular payment. Position: Translator and/or editor/proofreader Source language: Russian and Serbian Target language: Serbian and Russian (Translation in both directions SR<>RU)   Job description: Written translation Bilingual editing/proofreading Development/management of glossaries and termbases Communication with project managers […]

We are proud to announce that Ciklopea CEO Sandra Boljkovac Stojak is among the finalists for the Inspirational Woman Entrepreneur Award awarded by portal Women in Adria on the occasion of the Entrepreneurs’ Day. The award ceremony will be held in Hotel Westin in Zagreb on 14 November 2017 and the awards will be given […]

We are happy to announce that our Chief Strategy Officer Mladen Stojak will represent Ciklopea at the forthcoming TTT conference in Bled, Slovenia, 9 – 10 November 2017. Mladen will be happy to meet you in person and provide you with an insight into the business opportunities with Ciklopea. If you are attending the TTT […]

We are happy to announce that our Business Development Managers Kristijan Novak and Gordan Škorić will represent Ciklopea at the forthcoming MEDICA conference in Düsseldorf, Germany, 13-16 November 2017. Kristijan and Gordan will be happy to meet you in person and provide you with an insight into the high quality language solutions for the life […]

We are happy to announce that our Chief Business Development Officer Zana Čizmin will represent Ciklopea at the forthcoming Balkan Language Industry Symposium conference, a unique language industry event taking place for the very first time in Belgrade, Serbia, 9-10 November 2017.  Zana is also one of the organizers of BLIS and has worked with […]

We are happy to announce that our Human Resources Manager Sara Demiri will take part in TRANSLATION STAKEHOLDERS (RE)SHAPING THE MARKET panel at the forthcoming #TranslatingEurope Forum in Brussels, Belgium, 6-7 November 2017. Sara will share her professional views on bridging the gap between the language industry and the academic community and present the Ciklopea Academy […]

We are happy to announce that our Business Development Managers Kristijan Novak and Gordan Škorić will represent Ciklopea at the forthcoming Web Summit 2017 conference in Lisbon, Portugal, 6-9 November 2017. Kristijan and Gordan will be happy to meet you in person and provide you with an insight into the business opportunities in the Southern […]

We are happy to announce that our Chief Business Development Officer Zana Čizmin will represent Ciklopea at the forthcoming LocWorld35 – Silicon Valley conference in Santa Clara, CA, 1-3 November 2017. Zana will be happy to meet you in person and provide you with an insight into the business opportunities in the EU. If you […]

We are happy to announce that our Chief Strategy Officer Mladen Stojak and our Chief Operations Officer Marina Orešković will represent Ciklopea at the forthcoming Tekom Fair in Stuttgart, Germany, 24-26 October 2017. Marina and Mladen will be happy to meet you in person and provide you with an insight into the business opportunities in […]

The 3rd Ciklopea Summer School took place in Zagreb, from 21. August to 1. September 2017 and was attended by 9 students from Croatia, Serbia and, for the very first time, from the Republic of Macedonia. This is their story.

Freelance Translator – We offer constant work on dynamic and interesting projects, technical and linguistic training, professional growth and development and quick payment: Position: Translator and/or editor/proofreader Source Language: German / English Target Language: English / German Job description: Written translation Bilingual editing/proofreading Development / management of translation assets Communication with the Project Managers / […]

Ciklopea is looking for degree candidates in German studies for translation tasks from German to Croatian and from Croatian to German. Required Skills: Previous work experience in translation (preferred) Willingness to use CAT tools Communication and analytical skills, priority management What We Offer: Student employment contract job with an opportunity for professional advancement and career […]

Getting your brand noticed on the foreign markets is a tricky job, especially if you don’t speak the target language and need more cultural intelligence about the target market – and that’s where LSPs come in.

Position: Translator and/or editor/proofreader Source Language: German Target Language: Croatian Job description: Written translation Bilingual editing/proofreading Development / management of translation assets Communication with the Project Managers / technical team Required skills: Target language proficiency, grammar and orthography at the native level Source language proficiency Active use of CAT and QA tools (SDL Studio, MemoQ, […]

Your Tasks: Organization of complex translation/localization projects, priority management, management of financial and other aspect of the projects Preparation and management of project documentation Development and maintenance of professional relations with vendors and clients Everyday work in specialized professional software Your Profile: Elimination Criteria: Proficiency in German language (C2 level) English C1 level (at least) […]

Dr. sc. Sanja Seljan is a full professor at Department of information and communication sciences of Faculty of humanities and social sciences in Zagreb. Her main interests include machine translation, computer-assisted translation, localization and natural language processing. We have collaborated with Ms Seljan on several projects over the years and, following this year’s Ciklopea Summer School, we had a chat on the cooperation between the academe and the industry and the meeting points of linguistics and information sciences.

Position: Translator and/or editor/proofreader Source Language: Slovenian Target Language: Croatian Job description: Written translation Bilingual editing/proofreading Development / management of translation assets Communication with the Project Managers / technical team Required skills: Target language proficiency, grammar and orthography at the native level Source language proficiency Active use of CAT and QA tools (SDL Studio, MemoQ, […]

All businesses should know by now that a quality SEO strategy is essential for success. As people are now googling more and more, international audiences are the next step to growing your business. But how do you know when to expand into international waters?

Copywriters use a variety of stylistic devices to create catchy and effective marketing messages. Most of the time, though, these devices only work in the source language and can easily get lost in translation. This is where transcreation or creative translation comes into play.

Tin Režek is a student of management and economics who has been working in the business development department under the mentorship of BDM Zana Boljkovac for a few months now. Our HR manager Sara Demiri conducted an interview with Tin on his experience at Ciklopea.

Translations are one of those things that you only really notice once they’ve gone wrong. The internet is full of jokes about bad translations, which although may be funny, are actually a very serious issue for all stakeholders. Quality Assurance (also known as QA) is one of the steps taken within the language industry to prevent translation errors.

Companies in the life sciences industry invest huge amounts into keeping their businesses growing, especially when moving into a new market. Behind the scenes lots of work goes into keeping these companies afloat, and it couldn’t be done without localization.

Independent market research firm Common Sense Advisory recognizes Ciklopea as a leader in $43.08 billion global translation, localisation, and interpreting services industry.

Elia Together is a two-day event designed as a meeting point of language service providers and independent language professionals.

Are you a translation student looking for your first big break? Or are you a lecturer looking for new opportunities for your students? Whichever sums you up, internships are a great way to bridge the gap between translation industry veterans and the new generation of translators.

Our business development manager Zana Boljkovac and our human resources manager Sara Demiri took part in the Translating Europe Forum workshop “Career Day” held on 11 April 2017 in Ljubljana, Slovenia. The event, organized by the Directorate-General for Translation (DGT), was a great opportunity for students, teachers and industry representatives to share their ideas and […]

Following the successful professional training organized by Across Systems GmbH, Ciklopea has become an Across Language Server v6.3 certified provider of linguistic solutions, thereby joining the select group of global LSPs.

Ciklopea is offering several positions for an external associate: translator and proofreader (male/female) for German <> Croatian Candidates are expected to have: at least two years of experience in translation and localization, experience with translation tools (CAT), mandatory higher education (a degree in language or linguistics is preferred but not required), excellent knowledge of the […]

We help life sciences, IT & software, and technology and manufacturing industries communicate their message to foreign markets and secure a positive presence on a global scale. Want to join our team? Continue reading… As a Sales Representative, you will be part of the team enabling Ciklopea to strengthen its position as a leader in […]

Ciklopea is offering several positions for an external associate: translator and proofreader (male/female) for English, German <> Slovenian several positions for an external associate: translator and proofreader (male/female) for French, Italian, Spanish <> Slovenian Candidates are expected to have: at least two years of experience in the fields of translation and localization, experience with translation […]

The company underwent major reorganization over the past 12 months: “2016 was marked by further changes of our organization and team, but this successful recertification demonstrates that we are on the right track – and we may only be proud. Our team has expanded, the organizational structure has become more complex, but our core values […]

Ciklopea is looking for translators and proofreaders (m/f) for translations from German, English, French, Italian, and Spanish into Serbian and vice versa Requirements: at least 2 years of experience in translation and localization mandatory knowledge of work with CAT tools University degree mandatory, degree in languages (preferred but not required) excellent working knowledge of the […]

Your Job Description: Organizing of complex translation and localization projects, priority management, financial aspects and resources; Preparation and management of project documentation and translation quality control; Building and maintenance of professional relationships with clients and suppliers; Regular work in specialized professional software; Your Profile: Degree in humanities or economics (linguistics / translation studies preferred); English […]

What should an LSP do with its hardcover library of professional literature once its knowledge base is digitized and available online? Donate it to those who may still use it, of course. Ciklopea has donated its library consisting of 20 various bilingual dictionaries to elementary school “Dr. Vinka Žganca” in Kozari bok, with the hope […]

We are pleased to announce that Ciklopea has joined the SDL LSP Partner Program. The strategic partnership helps us update and verify our SDL expertise by SDL, streamline our processes and expand the possibilities of advanced linguistic solutions. SDL Trados Studio, GroupShare and MultiTerm have been among our standard tools since the very beginning of […]

30. September has been celebrated worldwide as International Translation Day since 1991, when it was established by the International Federation of Translators (IFT). On this day translators, linguists, students, writers and other members of language industry conduct special activities to celebrate their profession, raise the awareness of the importance of their work and express solidarity […]

This year’s Ciklopea Summer School took place in Zagreb from 22nd August to 2nd September 2016 and was attended by 11 linguistics students from Croatia, Serbia and Montenegro. The second edition of the Summer School was a continuation of Ciklopea’s efforts to enhance cooperation between the academic communities and the translation industry in the region […]

Ciklopea took part in this year’s Summer University event in Tuzla, acting in its capacity of Elia Exchange coordinator for the West Balkans. Elia Exchange program is developed and curated by ELIA (European Language Industry Association) and its aim is building a mutually beneficial relationship between the business and the academic community. A lecture on […]

Ciklopea Summer School began in 2015 as a further step in the company’s decade-long effort to develop cooperation between the industry and the academic community. The first Summer School was attended by language students from Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Serbia and was extremely successful, affirming our intention to make the Summer School […]

The cloud-based CAT tool Memsource has been used by Ciklopea’s teams for several months and it is on its way to integration with Ciklopea’s proprietary translation management system. Due to its simplicity, speed, reliability and cloud-based infrastructure that enables smooth performance at any time and effective costs, Memsource is becoming the preferred choice of the […]

Ciklopea participated in „Zlatni Indeks 2016“, the project organized for sixth year in a row by eSTUDENT, one of the most active student organizations in Croatia. „Zlatni indeks” is a project of students awarding the companies that helped their various student activities, offered numerous possibilities such as internship or employment, or otherwise contributed to the […]

As Ciklopea’s extensive rebranding campaign was progressing, we realized that we should have a mascot that would reflect our values and identity. Since our business practices have always been socially and environmentally responsible, we have decided to use the Mediterranean monk seal (Monachus monachus) as our mascot to raise the awareness of an endangered animal […]

Ciklopea’s rebranding campaign was launched in late 2015 and was conceived as a fully-fledged and multilevel restructuring of the company, its internal organization and processes, with the visual changes reflecting the internal ones. To us, the rebranding has been much more than a simple design update, but the beginning of a whole new era. We […]

Having completed two three-year certification circles, Ciklopea confirmed its status of certified quality control system with a new recertification in accordance with ISO 9001:2008 and ISO 17100:2015 (substitute to EN 15038). The supervision audit for information security management system in accordance ISO 27001:2013 was also successfully completed. The regular recertification and supervision audits were conducted […]

Once again, the implementation of the best practices in employee management at Ciklopea has been confirmed and the company has been awarded the Employer Partner Certificate. Aleksandar Zemunić, member of the steering committee of the certification company Selectio, awarded the certificate to Ciklopea’s HR manager Petra Bencic and company CEO Sandra Boljkovac Stojak. Ciklopea is […]

Translated and localized website is speaking to people on the local market. A multilingual SEO strategy is required to make it speak to the search engines on the local market as well.

The CATA-organized 1st Croatian Translation Forum was held on 5th November 2015 at the “Ban Jelacic” conference hall of Hotel Dubrovnik in Zagreb. This unique event and the first of its kind in Croatia attracted many professionals from different areas of the language industry, as well as the representatives of the academic community from the […]

Ciklopea successfully ended the 18-month project named „Localization: Hi-Tech Translation“in October 2015. The project was a part of the competition „The Application of ICT for Improving of Business Process“co-funded by the European Union through the Operational Program Regional Competitiveness 2007 – 2013 from the European Regional Development Fund. The project included the informatization of the […]

When we embarked on our journey through the world of language industry back in 2004, the very first logo of Ciklopea emphasized the two-way nature of translating, represented by two opposing arrows with our initial in the centre, underlining our idea of being an intermediary between cultures, languages, people and companies. We saw our mission […]

In the context of the language industry, Zagreb will be the centre of Europe on the 4th and 5th of November 2015, as the forum will host some of the top experts from various fields of translation industry from all over Europe, who will be there to share their insights, their knowledge and their thoughts […]

The massive amount of life sciences texts being translated to almost every written language of the world every day is essentially an active exchange of information on the cutting-edge life sciences products, procedures and development that are constantly widening the lexical stock of the target languages and thus make a valuable contribution to the scientific arenas of the target territories.

In keeping with the tradition of the development of cooperation between the language service industry and the academic community, Ciklopea organized an internship course for the students of Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb from September 21 to October 2. Eight students of English and German studies had an opportunity to gain insight […]

When we talk about the life sciences in the context of language industry, it is, for the most part, about the translation and localization of medical and pharmaceutical content.

The closing blog post of this series features the testimonials of the attendees from Slovenia, Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina.

As a translator, you are an adventurer. You mustn’t ever stop improving your abilities. To do so, you should constantly put yourself to test and eagerly accept new challenges.

By having organized the first Summer School in Zagreb during August 2015, Ciklopea has taken a giant step forward in its efforts to bring the world of professional translating and the academic community closer, and to improve the general state and make a positive contribution to further development of the translation industry in the region […]

We are happy to inform you that Ciklopea – with its Belgrade branch office – has become a member of SATC, the Serbian Association of Translation Companies, once again proving its status as the regional leader in the language services industry. The SATC goals and ethical and professional values that Ciklopea shares and supports are […]

Ciklopea, one of the founders of the Croatian Association of Translation Agencies and its presiding member, is pleased to announce the 1st Croatian Translation Industry Forum organized by CATA. CATA (Croatian Association of Translation Agencies), which is also a member EUATC, an umbrella organization of associations on the European level, is a professional association whose […]

Ciklopea, in its capacity of a regional leader in the language industry, has previously taken part in initiating and realizing the cooperation between the industry and the academic community. In addition to the ongoing organization and giving lectures at the universities with the aim of training young translators and having the Doors Open Days, as […]

Late in May 2015, Ciklopea has been certified for Across V6. The certificate is a guarantee of high proficiency in the use and application of Across V6, a CAT tool providing advanced server environment for management of translation projects, memories and terminology. Following the successful professional training organized by Across Systems GmbH, Ciklopea has been […]

Ciklopea has signed one of the 19 contracts awarded as part of the “Application of information and communication technologies to improve business processes” project. The official presentation was held on 13 April 2015 at the Ministry of Entrepreneurship and Crafts in Zagreb. The project is financed by the European Regional Development Fund within the framework […]

In keeping with the well-established tradition of its Corporate Social Responsibility policies, Ciklopea continues its support for Translators without Borders in 2015, thus proudly joining the worldwide network of socially responsible language solution providers that support the efforts of Translators without Borders to provide free translation in areas most severely struck by humanitarian, economic, and […]

Last weekend, from 19 to 21 March 2015, an international conference entitled “Professionalization vs. Deprofessionalization: Building Standards for Legal Translators and Interpreters” was held in Opatija. The conference was organized by EULITA, the Croatian Association of Court Interpreters and Translators, and the Jean Monnet Inter-University Centre of Excellence, and brought together numerous experts in the […]

Ciklopea was honored by having the opportunity to present its business model, the development of the company, the innovative ideas and the future of both its own business and the industry of language services in general at the second conference of inspirational business models “The Black Swan in the Blue Ocean” held in Zagreb on […]

Ciklopea joined Kilgray’s Growing Together partner programme in February 2015. As a committed partner, Ciklopea will continue to use memoQ and promote it among its partners. The benefits from joining the programme while using Kilgray technology have already been recognised given the fact that it also presents an important factor in Ciklopea’s continued growth and […]

Ciklopea held a translation and localization workshop for the students and teachers at the translation studies department of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Osijek on February 2nd, acting in its capacity as the Western Balkans regional coordinator of the ELIA Exchange Initiative. This is the first university to join the ELIA Exchange […]

Ciklopea continues the trend of publishing non-financial business data by issuing its comprehensive activity report for 2013 at the end of December 2014. This report, the fourth thus far, has been compiled in compliance with the G4 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI). Through this activity, we encourage the changes we hope […]

On 19 December 2014, the first Elia Exchange initiative Western Balkans regional forum was held in Osijek. The initiative has been launched by the European Language Industry Association (Elia), and its general objective is to strengthen cooperation between the academic community and the translation industry. The forum hosted by the first host faculty – the […]

The 6th National Conference on Corporate Social Responsibility was held on 10 December 2014 in Zagreb. This year, the plenary form of the conference was replaced by a dynamic and interactive form that included lectures by eminent experts from the field of corporate social responsibility and discussions following the lectures and presentations of professional papers […]

The Employer Partner Certificate is a project whose goal is to recognise, reward and promote companies and organisations that have the best human resource management processes in the Croatian labour market. On account of its established employee management system, Ciklopea was awarded the Employer Partner Certificate for 2014. In the last couple of years we […]

The surveillance audit of integrated quality management and information security system according to the requirements of ISO 9001, ISO/IEC 27001 and EN 15038 was successfully completed in November 2014 in Ciklopea. The regular surveillance audit was conducted by the certification company Bureau Veritas Croatia in all of the organisation’s units, and during the two days […]

Ciklopea, the regional leader in providing translation and localization services, has started a new business decade by opening a new office in Belgrade, the capital of the Republic of Serbia and one of the leading regional centers with a population of more than 1.5 million. Its area and population (7.2 million) make Serbia one of […]

In September 2014 Ciklopea became a certified partner for training translators and proofreaders to work in memoQ, a tool for computer aided translation developed by Kilgray. Training of trainers was conducted by Loctimize through four interactive online workshops which covered the main features of memoQ. Participants had the opportunity to learn how to plan and […]

On Tuesday, 8 July 2014, the Key Difference Award Ceremony was held in Zagreb. The award was presented for the third consecutive year to companies and organizations in the categories of general equality, equality for people with disabilities, gender equality and age equality. Ciklopea was awarded for the achievements in the field of human resources […]

CATA, Croatian Association of Translation Agencies, proudly wishes to announce that it has been admitted as a member of the EUATC, the umbrella organisation for national associations of translation companies throughout Europe. The EUATC provides a united voice for translation companies while promoting the highest standards of quality and business practice. Some of CATA`s goals, […]

This year, the Polish translation services provider TextPartner organized a special event to help the humanitarian work of the organization Translators Without Borders within the scope of its Fund a Translator project. It is a sports initiative entitled The Baltic Loop which started on 18 April and will end on 3 May 2014. The initiative […]

Ciklopea participated in this year’s GALA Film Fest 2014. GALA has asked its member companies to showcase their employees with a short video and to give an entertaining insight into their companies. Ciklopea has applied with the video “10th Anniversary: People – Processes – Technology – Experience“. You can watch our video on You tube. […]

The Fifth National Conference on Corporate Social Responsibility will be held next Tuesday, March 25, at the Esplanade Hotel in Zagreb, under the auspices of the President of Croatia, Ivo Josipović. The Conference will be held throughout the day and the program will include, among other things, the CSR Index award ceremony, a round table […]

In early 2013, CIKLOPEA made the strategic decision to implement and certify its own processes in compliance with the requirements of the Information Security Management Standard ISO 27001:2005. The harmonisation of CIKLOPEA’s business activities with the requirements of the standard was completed in late 2013 by integrating the requirements into the existent quality management system […]

CIKLOPEA has continued with its trend of non-financial business reporting. At the end of December 2013 it published a comprehensive report on activities in 2012. The third report has been made in accordance with the guidelines G3.1. Global Reporting Initiative for Level C. We appreciate the chance to be able to read a summary of […]

In December 2012 Ciklopea has presented Corporate Sustainability Report for 2011 in accordance with G3.1. guidelines of Global Reporting Initiative for level C. For the sake of consistency, during the making of this report we followed the requirements of ISO 26000, as well as the Ten Principles of the UN Global Compact Initiative. The report […]

This is a very exciting time for Ciklopea: this month we are celebrating 10 years in the translation business. During this time more than a thousand business relationships were built on the continuous confirmation of high reliability and good practice. As we all know, any successful business stands on the foundation of serving your clients […]

November is traditionally the month of certification audits of quality systems in our calendar. It was the same this year when, for the fourth time in a row , the certification house Bureau Veritas confirmed that all processes are in line with the requirements of the standards ISO 9001:2008 (quality management system) and EN 15038:2006 (quality management system for translation companies).

The 4th National Conference on Corporate Social Responsibility was held yesterday, 25 April 2013, at the Regent Esplanade Hotel in Zagreb under the patronage of the president of the Republic of Croatia, Ivo Josipović. Ciklopea has for the second time received the CSR Award, this time for 2012, in the category of small business for […]

for Encouraging Equality and Diversity of Human Resources in 2012

December is the season for gifts, so this December Ciklopea presents its associates and clients with a free Android and iOS iPhone application. All you have to do to download the app to your smartphone is go to Google Play or Apple App store and enter the keyword “ciklopea”. We are proud to present the […]

Ciklopea is pleased to announce that we have pledged our support to help humanitarian translations reach more people around the world by becoming a bronze sponsor of Translators without Borders.

Last week, three years after Ciklopea was first awarded these certificates, evaluation process and recertification audit were successfully completed, which proves that all the processes are in compliance with all the standards requirements. Once again it has been confirmed that Ciklopea places the strategic focus on quality management. Sometimes clients choose a translation services provider […]

Ciklopea proudly presents the video featuring the people who stand behind the products and services we offer and values we adhere to. We wanted to bring our company closer to our clients and partners so they can see for themselves that we aspire to excellence and continuous improvement of business processes with a certified quality […]

Ciklopea was awarded the Corporate Social Responsibility award (Indeks DOP-a) at the 15th anniversary of the Croatian Business Council for Sustainable Development. The company was given the CSR award for its first Corporate Sustainability Report, which ranks it among many other successful businesses that endorse CSR and the Global Reporting Initiative. The CSR award is […]

Ključnarazlika –awards for diversity in human resources were awarded today in Zagreb for the very first time. The goal of the award is to highlight the best practice Croatian employers that respect their employees and have great diversity practices in the categories of gender diversity, age diversity and disability. The awards were organized be the […]

Ciklopea is one of the leading translation and localization service providers in Croatia and in  the wider region of the Southeast Europe (SEE), as well as one of the first companies in the region to be awarded the certificate of from the independent certification company Bureau Veritas for ISO 9001:2008 (quality management system certificate) and […]

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Ciklopea, one of the leading LSPs (translation and localization services providers) in the Republic of Croatia and in the wider region of Southeast Europe (SEE) has joined the international Globalization and Localization Association (GALA) as a corporate member. GALA is an international nonprofit association whose member companies specialize in language services, translation services and language […]

Ciklopea, one of the leading LSPs (translation and localization services providers) in the Republic of Croatia and in the wider region of Southeast Europe (SEE) joins the renowned European Language Industry Association (ELIA) as a corporate member. The membership in ELIA provides a good platform for training, technology transfer and an active exchange of experiences. […]